[Tagging] Future of categories (was: Re: Deprecating wikipedia Tag)

[Andy Mabbett]

On 26 May 2015 at 13:01, Daniel Koć <daniel at koć.pl> wrote:
>> So a usecase:
>>
>> Say you want to locate all the streets and other objects named after
>> 17th century Dutch painters, worldwide.
>>
>> You could start by finding the painters from wikidata, then use the
>> Overpass API to do a regular expression search with all the resulting
>> Q-numbers.

> Wikidata alone may be problematic, because it's independent project,

Why would that be a problem?

> but it
> is big database of objects and their relations, so we could have better
> classification of our objects. Maybe close cooperation or fork would suit
> our needs?

Fork Wikidata? Why? Doesn't this community have enough to do, just mapping?

> Wikimedia already use our data for showing maps in the articles,
> so I think it may be beneficial for both parties to have a close
> cooperation.

That is indeed what's proposed.

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Andy Mabbett
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